NY Lawmakers Reject Same-Sex Marriage Bill

State lawmakers for New York decided on Wednesday to reject a bill that would have made their state the sixth to allow gay marriage.  The measure needed thirty-two votes in order to pass, and failed by a margin that was significantly wider than expected. The bill was eight votes short, instead failing with a twenty-four to thirty-eight vote count. The Assembly had passed the bill earlier, and the governor, David Paterson, agreed to sign it if and when it passed the state Senate.

After the vote, Paterson said that Wednesday was “one of his saddest days in twenty years of public service,” and that he criticized senators who “supported gay marriage but didn’t have the intestinal fortitude to vote for it.”

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